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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
Last night, I was just randomly browsing CrunchyRoll, and came across Thunderbolt Fantasy. At first, based on the poster thumbnail, I thought "hm, this looks like CG with character design akin to Final Fantasy". So I start watching and ... it turns out this show was made with puppets! Very, very elaborately made puppets, with finely detailed costumes and props. In combination with some CG and music and sound effects. The production quality is relatively impressive, but every few minutes, I couldn't help but keep exclaiming to myself "I can't believe this is done with puppets!" Worth a watch of the first 10 mins or so at least.
More mundanely, I finished Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions, and am up-to-date with Haikyu, and am working my way through RWBY (currently season 5).
I’ve been reading the Dragonball manga. It’s not a explosion of joy, because I already watched the anime as a kid and know a lot of things, but it’s comforting and fun. The first phase, when Goku is still a child, is the only I’m interested in. I like to close gaps in my knowledge of pop culture.
DBZ and Dragonball Super are mostly a humorless, never ending game of cosmic dick measuring, exaggerated reactions and “So you think that’s over!?!? I have only revealed one hundredth of my true power!!!!!!”. A waste of time, IMHO.
Watched The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, I don't know how on hell I missed that until now, 10/10 masterpiece.